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2. Footy (model yacht) - Wikipedia

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   In 1981 Brett McCormack of New Zealand saw a picture of "Choppa" in "Model Boats" magazine and was inspired to design a 12-inch yacht for a school technical drawing project. Much later, in 1996, he actually built the design as a free-sailing model for his 2-year-old son.

3. Model yachting - Wikipedia

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   Model yacht clubs have existed for many years in Great Britain, Ireland and the United States, most of them holding a number of regattas during each season. The rules do not generally require the owner or skipper of a model to build his own craft, but among model yachtsmen the designing and the construction of the boats constitute as important and interesting a part of the sport as the actual ...

4. Velocity prediction program - Wikipedia

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   A velocity prediction program (VPP) is a computer program which solves for the performance of a sailing yacht in various wind conditions by balancing hull and sail forces. VPPs are used by yacht designers, boat builders, model testers, sailors, sailmakers, also America's Cup teams, to predict the performance of a sailboat before it has been built or prior to major modifications.

5. Dabchick (dinghy) - Wikipedia

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   A Bermuda rigged boat, it has a mainsail and jib. Its hull is very shallow and its skipper sits on its flat deck. This hard chined scow was designed by Jack Köper [1] in 1955. [2] Since they were published in 1956, nearly 3,500 [2] plans have been issued to builders, and over 4,000 boats have been built. [3]

6. Sail plan - Wikipedia

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   Sail plan of a brig. A sail plan is a drawing of a sailing craft, viewed from the side, depicting its sails, the spars that carry them and some of the rigging that supports the rig. [1] By extension, "sail plan" describes the arrangement of sails on a craft. [2] [3] A sailing craft may be waterborne (a ship or boat), an iceboat, or a sail ...

7. Spreckels Lake - Wikipedia

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   Spreckels Lake is an artificial, clay-lined, reservoir holding around 7.8 million gallons (23.94 acre feet/29,530,000 liters) of non-potable (not-drinkable) well-water [3] [not specific enough to verify] behind an earthen dam that forms its western edge, walkway, and the 36th Avenue roadbed, which crosses the top of the dam after entering Golden Gate Park at Fulton Street.

8. Sabot (dinghy) - Wikipedia

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   The Sabot is a sailing dinghy that is sailed and raced singlehandedly usually by young sailors in various parts of the world. Sabots returning to the clubhouse after a race. The boat is suitable for amateur production. Early models were usually made from plywood. More recent models have been made from fiberglass.

9. Ranger (yacht) - Wikipedia

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   Stephens would credit Burgess with actually designing Ranger, but the radical departure from the heavy displacement sailing yachts was attributal to Stephens himself who had first used the design in Dorade, winner of the 1931 Trans-Atlantic Race. [2] Geerd Hendel, Burgess's chief draftsman, also had a hand in drawing many of the plans.